Carlos Bolaños Carriel

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More sequencing is needed to profile functional diversity than phylogenetic diversity, is this true?

There is a commentary in Langille et al., 2013: Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S r RNA marker gene sequences. "More sequencing is needed to profile functional...

28 March 2017 7,104 3 View

Are tandem repeats of rDNA target for SSR markers?

Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is tandemly repeated upstream or downstream. Are SSR (ISSR / AFLP) markers capable or targeting multilocus sequences in the ribosomal (rDNA)? If yes, how effective are SSR...

16 February 2017 2,596 1 View

Is C value paradox applied only for genome size, or to genome complexity, as well?

C value paradox describes the lack of relationship between genome size and organismal complexity (Buchanan Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition p. 405). I wonder if this...

09 February 2017 9,912 4 View

Physiologically, what represents the presence of cyclopropane Fatty acids in a fungal profile?

Generally we use Fatty acid profiles to estimate microbial biomass; however, we can find certain changes in composition of this parameter. What are the conclusions that we can formulate when...

27 September 2015 3,823 5 View